Confession Prayer Week of November 9, 2025

Call to Confession: 

As we enter into a time of confession together, a way we regularly take seriously our sin and lay it before God, let’s prepare our hearts by hearing these words from Psalm 139:

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

    you discern my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down

    and are acquainted with all my ways.

Even before a word is on my tongue,

    behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

You hem me in, behind and before,

    and lay your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

    it is high; I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from your Spirit?

    Or where shall I flee from your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, you are there!

    If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

If I take the wings of the morning

    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

even there your hand shall lead me,

    and your right hand shall hold me.

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,

    and the light about me be night,”

even the darkness is not dark to you;

    the night is bright as the day,

    for darkness is as light with you.

Prayer of Confession: 

Lord God, let this Psalm be the start of our confession today. Let it bring to mind the ways that we try to keep our misdoings from you, or put up barriers between us, or try to prove ourselves worthy before we come to you. Father, we know that is not what you desire of us.

God, you have already searched us, you have chosen to know us, and you have chosen to love us. Forgive us then for the ways we choose to hide from your you love instead of rest in it.

Lord, where shall we go from your Spirit? Even when the darkness feels like it is too much, you are lighting a path forward for us… because even the darkness is not dark to you. Help us not only to follow you, but to praise you along the way, and to help bring your light to others. Thank you Jesus for knowing us and loving us. Wonderful are your works. Holy Spirt, let us know that to the depth of our souls today. It is in your name we pray, Amen.

Assurance of Pardon: 

As an assurance and encouragement, hear the continuation of these words from Psalm 139, and rest in our God who is worthy of all praise… 

For you formed my inward parts;

    you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

    my soul knows it very well.

My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your book were written, every one of them,

    the days that were formed for me,

    when as yet there was none of them.